Harold Nicholson
| Harold James Nicholson | |
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Undated photograph of Harold James Nicholson, released by the CIA.
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November 17, 1950 Woodburn, Oregon |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Central Intelligence Agency officer |
| Criminal penalty | 23 ½ years |
| Criminal status | Imprisoned at ADX Florence supermax prison Fremont County, Colorado |
| Children | 3 |
| Conviction(s) | Espionage |
Harold James "Jim" Nicholson (born November 17, 1950) is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer and a twice-convicted spy for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). His recruitment to the SVR appears to have occurred in the wake of a much publicized arrest of senior CIA officer and Moscow mole Aldrich Ames in February 1994, which, in the words of CIA veteran and author Tennent Bagley, had "exposed extraordinary slackness of CIA security procedures."
Harold James "Jim" Nicholson joined the CIA in October 1980, after having served as captain in a US Army intelligence unit.
In his career with the CIA, Nicholson was assigned duties throughout the world; he worked for the CIA as an operations officer specializing in intelligence operations against foreign intelligence services, including the intelligence services of the USSR and later, the Russian Federation. From 1982 until 1985, he worked for the CIA in Manila, where he had direct contacts with targeted Soviet officials; from 1985 until 1987 he worked for the CIA in Bangkok, from 1987 until 1989 in Tokyo. From 1990 until 1992, he was the CIA Chief of Station in Bucharest, Romania.
From 1992 until 1994, Nicholson was the Deputy Chief of Station/Operations Officer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he met with and targeted for recruitment Russian intelligence officers.
From 1994 until July 1996, Nicholson worked as an instructor at the classified CIA's Special Training Center at Camp Peary, Virginia (also known as "The Farm"), teaching CIA trainees intelligence tradecraft. In July 1996, he was assigned as a Branch Chief in the Counterterrorism Center, Directorate of Operations, at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. That position carried a pay grade of GS-15, his salary being approximately $73,000.
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